Friday, March 24, 2017

#32-- You Can Open Up (27 Feb 2010)

Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:32:55 -0800
From: George <bronax@verizon.net>
To: John Theofanis <jtheofanis@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Strange discovery in your prose

Open your eyes. Everything you think and write and plan and hope and dream, is a map to your secret inside needs and hopes. Just look, and you shall see.
You are a born open warm person, that got somehow seared in fear shut as a wound is cauterized with a hot blade surface. Now you are grown up,
you can open up, flower, and favor us all with your experience, knowledge, and caring. 

John Theofanis wrote:

Hi George,

This note is helpful to me. Learned about myself and you took the insights from my own writing!

I very much appreciate this note!

It's late and so I'm going to call it a night. This email made it a better night and will carry me forward, buoy me up!

See-you,

John

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John,
Don't forget, big boys buoy themselves up!!!!
    Nice we don't live in Chilie, where earthquake survivors on CNN report dealing with the 4 types of earthquake waves, P, S, and up and down and
    back and forth surface waves. Expert opinion suggests less deaths than in Hait, because Chile had better building codes and
 better and stronger built buildings than did Haiti. Working on clearing out my house, a year long struggle. Better
 now than later. I had tree cutting guy give me a cheaper estimate for just cutting off three large limbs from
 pine tree, and I gave him a box of books I hadn't yet read, history, autobiography of Bill Clinton, CS Lewis,
   history of river Yangzse in China, etc. Office gal said he liked history and religion. Today is talk walk indoors. We are having sporadic rain for next
   several days. Plants yelping with delight.

George



To: John  Dittola, from Hispaniola ( he, he, he....)      From: George the Jorge......

Re reading your article, Advising in the Trenches,
I note you realize that any new task transforms you,
that you hold influence over others ( your readers)
and your bosses respect and help you (your publishers)
and you have that human touch which will make your
successful as a writer and friend. When I used to take
the girls to restaurants, I could always identify
those waiters or waitresses who were doing their
day jobs to support themselves, while they continued their movie , tv, or stage careers. They were real and
personable, warm and open, not just acting out a
service person script. Being open and real identifies one
even over a horizon......
    George


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